Joseph Bailey is a psychologist, consultant and public speaker. He is noted largely for his 1990 book about addiction and treatment, The Serenity Principle and is the author of three other books on mental well-being:Slowing down to the Speed of Life, The Speed Trap: Avoiding the Frenzy of the Fast Lane, Slowing Down to the Speed of Love and Fearproof Your Life. Joe Bailey has been a psychotherapist for thirty-five years, and is a consultant to many corporations and healthcare, mental health and chemical dependency organizations. He is a seminar leader and trainer of professionals. His practice of research and teaching an integration of psychological and spiritual health embraces many of his writing partner Richard Carlson's techniques in addressing a person's innate health, as well as those of Sidney Banks and refined by George Pransky and Roger C. Mills, known as "Health Realization." Joe Bailey toured nationally to promote Slowing Down to the Speed of Life, The Speed Trap and Slowing Down to the Speed of Love. He has appeared on or been quoted in USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, The St.